Chapter 65 – Reverse Tour
Bang!!
Despite the amount of mana wrapped around me, tears welled up involuntarily at the tingling pain that rode up my forehead.
However, he gritted his teeth and reversed his flying body with the recoil.
He landed on the ground with his bruised arms and discharged lightning through his entire body.
The blinding flash that caused Nick Irons hastily blinded him, but it wouldn’t restore his sight for a moment.
Unlike muscles, eyes cannot be trained.
I followed Dorothea’s method of using magic.
Tadak! Right!
Hit the ground with your heels continuously, as if you were doing a tap dance.
Then, a lump of metal made of alchemy rose from the ground.
I kicked it and sent it all over Nick Iron.
“Kuh! What are you doing!”
Nick Irons shouted as if he had heard it, but I was not obliged to answer it.
Hit your heels once again.
Then, as the delayed magic was activated, the metal that was scattered all over Nick Iron turned into a magnet.
“Did you say that your body is incapable of magic?”
If so, it would be necessary to disable it in some other way.
Geeying!
The iron started to vibrate and glow red.
It was artificially turned into an electromagnet by magic.
Unlike Ozma’s sword of purgatory, Nick Iron’s body seemed unable to interfere with the magic’s molecular structure itself.
Simply put, there is no way for him to arbitrarily erase the magic that works from the outside.
And the chromium that makes up Nick Iron’s body was ferromagnetic.
“Ow!”
Immediately after, a pained sound came out of his mouth.
It would be natural.
It was because the electromagnets surrounding it made it impossible to move.
I asked while gathering magic in my knuckles while his movements were sealed.
“Now I can’t even run away, so what should I do?”
“…Do you think you can beat me with just this much!”
“Even the guys who say that will change their story once this is done.”
I prepared Little Boy, which caused an avalanche on the Eastern Front.
It is an etheric type of magic that consumes mana three times that of normal magic.
Normally, I don’t use it because it takes too much time to activate, but if it’s a fixed target like now, the story is different.
If the power is halved, you can fire a few more shots.
Spheres of light gather at the end of the knuckles.
A crystal of pure mana, it emitted pure white light.
No matter how high my magic resistance was, it wouldn’t be able to completely neutralize high-level magic.
“Kkeuuuuu!”
Nick Irons tried to force his body to move, setting a band of blood around his neck, but all he could do was take a few steps.
Considering the self-power I set, that alone was a tremendous grit, but to be honest, the opponent was bad.
It was because it was obvious that I would never have thought in my dreams that I was the type of mage who could exploit his weaknesses.
If you twist it, you should have covered the body with Orichalcon instead of chrome.
Pong!
The sphere of light that left the knuckles stopped in front of Nick Iron’s chest.
In fact, there was no harm in itself.
After all, it was nothing but highly compressed mana.
It’s a problem because the moment another element interferes with a grenade with the safety pin pulled out, it causes a ridiculous explosion.
Gulp-
I could vividly hear Ozma swallowing as he watched us from a safe place.
It’s such a state of extreme tension.
Nick Iron, who had been staring at my face alternately with the magic that could erase his body in one shot, seemed to have given up after all, and his head hung weakly.
“…I lost.”
“It will be like that sooner or later.”
I snorted and dispelled the little boy magic made of highly compressed ether.
***
The same goes for Dorothea, whom I worked with on the Eastern Front last time, and Nick Iron, whom I met this time.
Overconfidence in one’s ability and carelessness leading to defeat is one of the typical clichés of villains, but even Nick Iron, who is nicknamed ‘absolute defense’, could not avoid that typical formula.
“I am truly impressed by your power. Patrasche. I will formally apologize for my rude words earlier.”
The ecosystem of the demons is basically a world of strong self-respect.
Nick Iron, who admitted that he was weaker than me through real-life sparring, completely lost his overbearing attitude that he showed at the beginning.
It was because I could feel that he respected me from the way he spoke.
Once the ranks were established, the story after that was no different.
I asked the obedient Nick Irons how he negated his magic.
Judging from what he said, it seemed that he couldn’t completely counteract high-ranking magic, but from the wizard’s point of view, he was quite a shocker.
Then Nick Irons scratched the back of his head, which was made of chrome, as if embarrassed, and answered my question.
“It’s not exactly invalidating it. It’s absorbing mana through the contact surface.”
Saying that, Nick Irons opened his stomach.
Inside, there were three or four cylinders that appeared to be engines rather than internal organs, but the transparent cylinders were filled with a blue liquid.
I instinctively realized that what was contained there was my mana.
“The blacksmith who remodeled me, Ku Klip, is very dexterous. He is able to gather the bodies of the dead and create a new life form. I am as good as reborn from his hands.”
This is a secret I never thought of.
It’s not because of the personal characteristics of Nick Iron, but because of the gimmick installed by the blacksmith, he became a body that can absorb magic.
At this point, isn’t the only thing he gained from his efforts is muscle? I thought about it, but decided to hold back.
It’s because it was an act that was tantamount to making enemies inside the Demon King’s Army for nothing.
Anyway, since I met him, I heard everything I wanted to hear, and I said everything I wanted to say, so there was nothing left to see.
I spoke to Ozma, who was waiting for the story to end.
“Let’s go back.”
“Yeah, yes.”
***
After leaving Nick Iron’s cabin, Ozma’s expression was strange.
When I asked why, Ozma scratched his cheek with an awkward expression and answered.
“Kaldrash, I didn’t know you were such a strong mage.”
“Ah. Is that so?”
What else do I say
“It doesn’t matter if you treat him as usual. Anyway, it’s new to me now, and it’s easier for me to treat him like he did before.”
Recently, the relationship between Ozma and the priest has become unreasonable, but he was not a particularly formally accepted disciple.
Other than that, she is the daughter of her boss, the Demon King, and I am a new employee who just entered.
Of course, it would be right to serve like a cut.
However, Ozma seemed uncomfortable with that.
“But aren’t you strong enough to defeat the Four Heavenly Kings? If you don’t get the treatment you deserve, wouldn’t you be angry?”
In a way, this is what I want to say the most to my former colleagues from the warrior party.
So I said with a smile.
“Anything is fine as long as it doesn’t cross the line. And I’m definitely a social person. I don’t just break everything just because I’m angry.”
When I showed a more flexible attitude than expected, Ozma nodded her head with an embarrassed expression.
I saw it and added a comment.
“Well, isn’t that the difference between a demon and a human? For demons, strength is an absolute measure, but humans also look at the other person’s status. I’m a small person, so I’m not the type to touch the daughter of a higher person than me.”
“…Yes, if that’s you, I’ll treat you comfortably from now on.”
“I’d appreciate it if you would.”
After the short conversation, Ozma kept her mouth shut and didn’t say anything until she returned to her quarters.
***
Next day.
We headed to the Colosseum, where we went yesterday, to participate in the final round of the martial arts competition.
“”Waaaaa!””
The atmosphere is much more exciting than yesterday.
That’s because, unlike the preliminaries, in which even the crowd and chatterers participated, only the strong players gathered from the finals.
After parting ways with Ozuma, dressed as a man, in front of the reception desk, I head to the contestants’ waiting room.
There were already many participants inside, waiting for their turn.
Today, the round of 32, round of 16, and quarterfinals will be held.
There were also demons with normal physique like me, but most of them were heteromorphic or had a very large body.
It is literally a spectacle like a pandemonium.
Tumble, Tumble.
When I entered the waiting room with confident steps, everyone’s eyes instantly turned to me, but thanks to the mask, my poker face didn’t collapse.
In fact, there were times when I received more attention and death than this, so I just developed resistance.
I sat down in an empty seat, crossed my arms and closed my eyes.
The other guys were prowling each other with their eyes open for more information, but I didn’t want to be part of a skit.
Before long, the outside of the waiting room became noisy.
The final round of the martial arts competition had begun.
